H. L. Mencken Quotes
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.H. L. Mencken
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
Patrick Ness -
It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
Taylor Dye -
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne -
I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
Rachel Kushner -
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard -
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
Rachel True
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
Maluma -
Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
Sam Smith -
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
Walter Cronkite -
I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
Tao Okamoto -
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
Vicki Lawrence
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Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.
Dominique Moceanu -
I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.
Jen Lancaster -
My job is to get the very best people we can.
Bill Haslam -
You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.
Mark Hyman -
One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken